(n.) One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.
(n.) A small copper coin of insignificant value.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several intrinsic weaknesses in economics which stop it from fixing itself and you only need to see the number of economist deniers to see that the rules of the game will have to be altered from the outside.
(2) A trained economist, and de facto "deputy chancellor" under Gordon Brown between 1997 and 2005, Balls's recent speech at Bloomberg, savaging the "growth deniers" of the Con-Dem coalition and urging a slower pace of fiscal consolidation, was hailed by Martin Wolf ("basically right") and Samuel Brittan ("spot on") of the Financial Times.
(3) It’s hard work when you have a climate denier who will not see the reality of scientific truth,” she said.
(4) Actor Pete Postlethwaite yesterday denounced climate change deniers as a "negative force" with their "heads in the sand".
(5) But no campaigner has gone as far as Stein, who said Obama was "another climate denier who basically sold out with just a little bit of window dressing".
(6) It used to be it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,” Cruz said.
(7) I'd like to see how many deniers could keep their faith after an hour in a tent with this remarkable man.
(8) Carsten Brzeski (@carstenbrzeski) The crisis denier.
(9) He was once called "the accountant of Auschwitz," but he is also one of the few former Nazi death camp guards to speak out against Holocaust deniers.
(10) "Holocaust deniers are as sickening as they are ignorant.
(11) After other industry leaders such as WPP and Weber Shandwick came out against climate deniers, an Edelman executive, Ben Boyd, told a Chicago radio programme : “we do not work for deniers”.
(12) We are not deficit deniers, but we get 80% of our funding from central government, which means we are disproportionately affected compared to leafier and more prosperous parts of the country who raise more of their income through council tax.
(13) The woven Dacron prostheses, which were of even lower porosity but with a much thinner wall, had cell counts midway between the 140-denier and the 280-denier prototypes.
(14) Nearly 100 direct descendants also signed a letter expressing concern as investors and begging the company to stop funding climate deniers, Goodwin said.
(15) That’s not to say I or any of my colleagues are climate change deniers or anything of that kind, we fully recognise the points: the data and science is there.
(16) Theresa May’s tactic is clear: to accuse anyone who dares question her headlong, blindfold charge towards hard Brexit of being democracy deniers.
(17) In the last evaluation, one year after leaving the hospital (N = 52), there was no difference among deniers and non deniers in demand for psychiatric attention.
(18) Climate Progress , which compiled a tally of Republican climate change deniers , hailed Castle's stand, quoting from campaign material: Believing that we must act now to mitigate the impact of global warming pollution, Castle supports US participation in international agreements and a cap and trade programme based on the best available science, which will deliver the kind of reform business and industry need to grow the economy, stabilise the climate, and create more diverse and secure sources of energy.
(19) Senate president Bernard Makuza was quoted by the New Times newspaper as saying: “We must stand and fight against these deniers.
(20) We will leave the sceptics and deniers to waste their time challenging the science.
Weight
Definition:
(v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
(v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
(v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
(v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
(v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(5) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(6) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(7) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(8) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(9) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(11) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(12) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(13) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(14) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
(15) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
(16) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
(17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(18) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(19) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(20) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.